ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Censorship of music

Okay kiddo, you know how some songs have words or messages that aren't appropriate for children or might be bad for people to hear? Well, sometimes adults who work for the government or big companies decide that those songs shouldn't be played on the radio or TV or sold in stores. That's called censorship.

The people who do the censoring think that they're protecting kids and society by keeping bad things out of music. But other people think that censorship is bad because it stops artists from expressing themselves freely and stops people from listening to music that they like.

In some cases, songs get censored because they have bad language, talk about violence or sex, or go against certain beliefs or values. The censors might take out words or even whole verses to make the song more suitable for everyone.

So, censorship tries to control what we listen to, and it can be good or bad depending on what you think about it. It's important to remember that everyone has different opinions on what is and isn't appropriate, and it's up to us to decide what we want to listen to.